Test-card scoring apparatus for



March 10, 1936. N, (:UFF 2,033,817

A TEST CARD SCORING APPARATUS FOR STUDENTS USE I Filed July 24, 1934 000000 000 000000000 000 0oo00000o 00o ;ooo00000o 00o 000000000 000 ooooooooo 000 000000000 000 ATTO R N EY Patented Mar. 10, 1936 UNlTEDSTATES .ATiE NT QFFICE "TEST-CARD SCORING APPARATUS FOR STUDENTS USE Noel B. Cuff, Richmond, Ky. Application July 24, 1934, Serial -Nq. 73657139 1 Claim. 1.- 35-48) The invention relates to a test card scoring apsuitable manner to the said-upright s and likewise paratus and more especially to an apparatus for the said uprights -are fixed to the base 5 in any determining by weight the correctness of scores suitable manner. as made by students on a test examination. Adjustably carried by the uprights is a test 6 The primary object of the invention is the score card holder 8, it providing an open frame provision of an apparatus of this character 9 for removably supporting a perforated answer wherein through theuse of weighing scales, corcard which consists of two duplicate cardboards rect test scorings as executed by a student in 9 and I0, respectively, with holes ll, preferably answering questions through the use of a perfofive hundred in number, and an interposed thin 10 rated answer card can be had with dispatch and sheet H, the cardboard 9' being approximately 10 by weight, the apparatus being novel in conone-half inch shorter at its bottom than the struction and eliminating-the drudgery anderrors cardboard l-fl, so that the student can write his of counting answers as is now done in educational name, class or the like on the inserted sheet institutions. of paper l2. The answers to a test examination,

Another object of the invention is the prothat is, questions making upon the same, will be 15 vision of an apparatus of this character wherein had by punching with a pencil point through the great saving both in time and labor is assured right hole indicative of the correct answer as for determining accuracy of scorings made by present in the sheet l2 in register with said students under an objective test, as the ordinary puncture.

2o marking and counting of test responses is en- Slidably fitted with an upright 6 is a,weight tirely eliminated, thereby enabling a teacher to elevator I3 in which are arranged pin-like weights report scores to students when they are most M, these being loosely supported in vertical holes likely to have favorable effects. therefor in the elevator l3 and having upper A further object of the invention is the proheads 15 of greater size than the holes l6 receivvision of an apparatus of this character which ing said pin-like weights I4, so that the said 25 is extremely simple in its construction, thoroughweights l4 cannot drop through the holes I6 and ly reliable and efficient in its purpose and operfall from the elevator l3, as the heads l5 of ation, strong, durable, enabling correct scores to the weights [4 normally rest upon the elevator l3 be visible at a glance, and inexpensive to manuwhen the latter is in a raised or elevated position. facture. The weights I4 are of a number corresponding 30 With these and other objects in view, the into the number of holes in the perforated answer vention consists in the features of construction, card hereinbef-ore mentioned. combination and arrangement of parts as will The elevator I3 is suspended by coiled exbe hereinafter more fully described in detail, pansion springs I! connected with the hangers 1 illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which and these springs normally hold the elevator 35 discloses the preferred embodiment of the ini3 raised. The elevator I3 carries a handle I 8, vention, and pointed out in the appended claim. so that the same can be lowered by pressure In the accompanying drawing: from the hand of an operator against the re- Figure 1 is a front elevation of an apparatus sistance of the springs ll. On the lowering of constructed in accordance with the invention. the elevator l3, those weights l4 registering with 40 Figure 2 is a side elevation partly in section. the punches in the perforated answer card will Figure 3 is a top plan view partly broken away. drop onto the weighing platform D of the scale Similar reference characters indicate correand thus the scale A, through the pointer or sponding parts throughout the several views in hand C cooperating with the weight indicating 5 the drawing. dial B, will enable the determining by weight of Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates the score had by a student through the instrugenerally a weighing scale of any approved kind mentality of the perforated answer card. Those having the graduated weight indicating dial B weights l4 not registering with the punches and pointer or indicator C, this being operated scored by the student in the said answer card 5 from a weighing platform D and cooperating will become raised and out of contact with the with the scale dial B for ascertaining determined weighing platform D of the scale A and by placweights. The scale bodyAis superimposed upon ing a board l9 upon these raised weights M a platform or base 5 from which rise spaced verthe same can be manually forced or by its own tical uprights 6, these supporting at their upper weight caused to puncture the answer card to ends horizontal hangers 1 which are fixed in any punch the same at other places than that of 55 the punches as made by the student and thus afford correction to the examinees mistakes for a permanent record thereof.

In setting up the apparatus for weighing a particular test, the operator thereof inserts in each hole in the elevator l3 which corresponds with the hole in the answer card which should be punched by the student the weight M of pin-like form. This weight projects perpendicularly to the elevator and is acted upon by vertical force and all weights being light enough that if the paper has not been punched through a given answer hole the paper l2 will suffice to hold up that weight. In scoring a given answer card the operator first simply places it on the frame 9 and. then lowers the elevator [3. At every place where a correct hole has been punched, a weight l4 falls to the weighing platform D of the scale A, which is slightly below the holder 8, and in all other cases the weights M are held up off of the weighing platform D of the scale A. Thus those weights [4 imposed upon the platform D will operate the scale A, so that a count may be had by weight of the correctness of the score as made by a student in the punching of the answer card, the punches being indicative of the answers to questions under a test examination.

When hand pressure is relieved from the handle I8 of the elevator l3 the latter, under the action of the spring l1, returns to normal position or is elevated and all pins I4 carried thereby will come to rest by the contact of the heads l5 with the elevator l3 as shown in Figure 1 of the drawing. The separated pins or those dropped as liberated by the punches in the score card and indicative of the answers to a test examination are shown in Figure 2 of the drawing, and the scale indicating by weight the correctness of the score.

What is claimed is:

The herein described construction of test card scoring apparatus for students use comprising a fiat base having a platform scale thereon and having uprights arising therefrom, horizontal hangers fixed on the uprights, a perforated plate comprising a weight elevator guided on the uprights, suspending springs carried by the hangers yieldably supporting the elevator, headed weight pins, all of an equal length and weight in the perforations of the elevator, a horizontally disposed frame above the scale platform adjustably supported on the uprights, said frame removably supporting therein a test card having a series of perforations designed to receive therethrough the pin weights in registering alignment with the perforations to cause the latter to rest on the platform of the scale to indicate on such scale the correct answer to an objective test, and said test card affording a rest for an answer card which has been perforated by a student and arranged to have its perforations register with those of the test card, for the purpose set forth. NOEL B. CUFF. 

